| Show MORE ABOUT IT a a Delights of an Excursion with a Storm and Cold Wave Our correppendent who accompanied I accom-panied the five days excursion sends the following additional particulars I ticulars After seven houra pleasant ride through the pfctaesque vilieges of Salt Lake and Utah Counties and up through the grand scenery of Spanish Fork CauyoDtha excursion train that left Salt Lake City Saturday Satur-day morning wcs safely tidetrauRed i at Hales a station six miles below hofield on the branch I me running to the coal mines The camping place a delightful one is in a beau iful little valley intersected by a mountain stream abounding in fish and surrounded by thickly I wooded mountains whore deer an i sage hens are plentiful plenti-ful Before night everything was arranged in camping order and everybody anticipated a good time but fate had uecreed it otherwise As per advertisement ad-vertisement in the evening a grand ball took place in a bowery arranged for The purpose several hundred yards frm tha train The cowboys cow-boys and sheep herders for thirty miles around had heard of it and were there chuck full of the dancing danc-ing spirit and bad whisky They mude things lively in trat vicinity for two or three hoursat least so your correspocdent thought when io went over to get a few items and was quickly convinced that it was not a healthy place to ba in The only excursionists thatattended the grand ball were a few who had joined the party at Provo Spring ville and P V Junction The Bait Lakers spent the evening nitfintr around a Idrcra amn fire passing the time away a1n conversation = conversa-tion and sineing About 10 oclock the camp fire was abandoned and all repaired to the train for a night of refreshing sleep But in this they were sorely disappointed for sleep big places not beds had to be Improvised Im-provised on the seats of ordinary passenger cars there being no sleepers sleep-ers except nn emigrant bleeping car for the banjo The deluded pleasure set kers had been packed in the aforesaid seats about two hours vainly striving to forgot their mis cries In the arms of Morpheus when the grand ball came to an end and the band came to take up quarters in their Pullman emigrant sleeper They had left their blan kes scattered all over the train and way now began a viorous search for them regardless of any desire that the before mentioned pleasure seekers might have had forsleepThe search continued for about two hours when nil became quiet once more By this time 2 n m some fiends who < ad no blankets and were thus campelled to keep themselves them-selves warm as best they could found a hand car ad ktpt up a circulation running it up and down the main track fcr the balance of the night A young lady doubled up like a letter S on one of the seats at intervals inter-vals would explain What a real nice time we are having I Sunday morning damp and cold dawned upon a sorry look ng lot of people part of whom left for P V Junction as soon as an engine could be brought to take them The bal anon of the party that remained at Haea were kept in the csrs until noon by rain In the afternoon there was a sheeting match between the Dseret and Silt Like clubs wuicu reauueu in a victory for me latter Later an engine came and took t tho party up to the coal mines returning in time to arrange for a camp fire concert in the t vening This proved to be the only redeeming II redeem-ing feature of the whole trip A large I camp fire was built and while setting i around thus we were entertained enter-tained I by several flue selections by the i i Fort Douglas Band The scene with its wild surroundings and thrilling strains of music bursting fcrh on tho clear mountain air seemed seem-ed to entrance all and for a while we forgot the miseries of the night before Prof Stigler also favored us with a number of soloa on the zither and other members of the I band did some excellent singing The concert lasted until 11 oclock when we all retired and managed to get a little sleep Monday morning the whole party returned to tba city with the exception of the Wag nerPoHech party who wee left with one car to say untIl Wednes day BAIGS |
